Nepal, Oct. 11 -- Nepali politics, even after the 2025 Gen Z uprising, has changed only partially, in both organisational and substantive terms. Riding the wave of instant popularity from major parties' failures to project an image and deliver, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has been catapulted to power, with Balendra Shah as Prime Minister.

Yet, one shift since then is in the Nepali Congress (NC), as its second-generation leaders try to read the country's changing political landscape more objectively. The new reality is that politics as usual can neither be sustainable nor attractive because of the mounting pressure from the country's youth. People were also disgusted with old politicians who turned politics into a fiefdom, with a f...